 | Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Ian Osborn
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $4.94 Dr. Osborn is an M.D. who also suffers from OCD--this book is wonderfully compassionate while also incredibly useful.
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 | Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.00 This is a very practical book--you can begin putting his techniques to use within an hour. Dr. Schwartz is one of the world's foremost authorities on OCD.
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 | The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Signet) by Judith L. Rapoport
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A classic case study on OCD by one of the pioneers in the field. It's particularly helpful at describing OCD in children. A number of new medications have come out since this book was first published in 1989--so you'll need to find that info elsewhere. Still a great read.
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 | Mastering the Zone: The Next Step in Achieving SuperHealth and Permanent Fat Loss by Barry Sears
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $0.01 Controlling your blood sugar evens out your mood and softens the unpleasant thoughts. The first 50 pages of this book do a wonderful job explaining how to eat right and control blood sugar.
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 | Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen Levine
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.96 I discovered this book by accident when things were really bad for me and it brought me an incredible sense of calm.
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 | Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition by Ken Wilber
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $8.74 This may seem like a strange choice at first but here's the idea--OCD is fundamentally an existential problem--why are we here, what happens when we die? This book speaks to those questions.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.99 For me, 1984 is the best description of what it feels like to suffer from OCD. Think of Big Brother as the Super-ego, Winston Smith as the Ego, and and the brotherhood as the Id and you'll have a pretty good understanding of the way that various parts of the mind are at war with each inside the head of an OCDer.
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